An empirical investigation of the capacitive Body Coupled Communications channel for Body Area Networks

RWW 2012 - Proceedings: 2012 IEEE Topical Conference on Biomedical Wireless Technologies, Networks, and Sensing Systems, BioWireleSS 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 85-88

  Attard, Simon ^a   Zammit, Saviour ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALTA   (Malta)

Author keywords

Body Area Networks; Body Coupled Communications; Wireless Body Sensor Networks

Indexed keywords

BODY AREA NETWORK; BODY CONDITION; CLOSE PROXIMITY; COMMUNICATIONS CHANNELS; EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; FREQUENCY-SELECTIVE; HUMAN BODIES; LOW PROPAGATION LOSS; RADIATION EXPERIMENT; SIGNAL ENERGY; SIGNAL POWER; WIRELESS BODY SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS SYSTEMS;

BODY SENSOR NETWORKS; EXPERIMENTS; FREQUENCY BANDS; SENSORS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

NETWORKS (CIRCUITS);

EID: 84860599693     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BioWireless.2012.6172747     Document Type: Conference Paper

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